The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has demanded a retraction and apology from the Punch and Daily Times newspapers over an alleged coup plot levelled against against the NDDC boss. NDDC’s spokesperson, Seledi Thompson-Wakama in a statement said the Commission’s legal counsel, in a strongly worded letter signed by Chief Ayodeji Adedipe, SAN, demanded that…
The are indications that the Nigerian military has detained Dr Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), over alleged involvement in a failed plot to overthrow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Sources within military intelligence revealed that Ogbuku allegedly transferred a substantial sum of money to former Minister of State for Petroleum…
Lagos Ministry of Youth and Social Development, has rescued a woman who allegedly went to Panti Police Station, Yaba, Lagos to report and arrest the sun. According to information gathered, the woman, who was described as well-dressed, had taken an Uber ride from Lekki to the Panti Police Station, where she reportedly attempted to file…
The Department of State Services (DSS) has trailed to Oyigbo, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and arrested one Innocent Chukwuma who ,used his social media handle to rally the military to overthrow the current government. Posting on his “X” handle “@TheAgroman,” Chukwuma stated that a coup was needed in Nigeria and called on the military to…
Pretty Mike The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Lagos socialite and nightclub owner, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, popularly known as Pretty Mike, alongside former Big Brother Naija Housemate, Tuoyo Ideh, with more than 100 guests during a midnight raid of Proxy Nightclub, Victoria Island, Lagos. The agency, in a statement signed by…
In what has become a recurrent decimal in the government of Niger State, Abubakar Isah Mokwa, a postgraduate student at the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU) Lapai, has been arrested for allegedly criticising Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago, the state governor. Mokwa was arrested over a Facebook post critical of Governor Bago. Mokwa, who is of…
The police have offered reason for the arrest of Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore, outside the court premises on Thursday. Sowore was arrested when he visited the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. The police said Sowore was taken in over Monday’s #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest in Abuja. Force Public Relations Officer, Benjamin…
Security operatives on Thursday arrested Omoyele Sowore, former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and convener of the #FreeNnamdiKanu movement, shortly after he met with the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Eyewitnesses said Sowore was apprehended by police officers…
Ibrahim Ishaq Dan’uwa Rano The Nigeria Police Force has arrested and detained a Kano-based digital journalist, Ibrahim Ishaq Dan’uwa Rano, following a petition allegedly by Abdullahi Ibrahim Rogo, the Director General of Protocol to Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf. Daily Trust gathered that Dan’uwa Rano was picked up on Saturday by officers from Zone One Police…
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted consignments of illicit drugs concealed in frozen snails, electrical bulbs, and female clothes bound for the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to a statement released on Sunday by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the interceptions were made at…
